Rail-fastener.



TOE VIROVA'IZ AND JOHN KIRALY, .OF ONEIDA, WISCONSIN.

RAIL-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 16, 1915.

Application filed September 23, 1914. Serial No. 863,150.

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, Jon VrRovA'rz and JOHN KIRALY, subjects of the Kingof Hungary, residing at Oneida, in the county of Outagamie and State ofWisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inRail-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in railfasteners.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a device employablewith a railway spike of any desired form for engaging the base flange ofa rail and securing the same to the supporting tie, a portion of thedevice adapted for entering the tie during the driving of the spike intoits holding position.

A further object is to provide a removable auxiliary head for a railwayspike which is adapted to secure a rail to a supporting tie while aportion of such head is obliquely embedded within the tie and anopposite portion thereof rests upon the base flange of the rail.

With these general objects in view and others that will appear as thenature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in thenovel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fullydescribed, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and set forth in theappended claim.

In the drawings forming a part of this application and in whichlike-designating characters refer to corresponding parts throughout theseveral vews, Figure 1 is a view of the device operatively positioned,the tie and rail being shown in vertical section. Fig. 2 is a centraltransverse sectional view of the device partially broken away and aportion of the spike shown in dotted lines, and Fig. 3 is a perspectiveview of the auxiliary head detached.

Referring more in detail to the drawings, the invention broadly consistsin the provision of an inexpensive means for engaging the base ange 10of the rail 11 for the purpose of securing the rail to the cross tie 12and provides an auxiliary head 13 of the form illustrated in Fig. 3which is slidably mounted upon the railway spike 14 which is of anydesired form of retaining spike.

The spike 14 is here illustrated as having a rectangular head 15 with apointed shank 16 which is rectangular in cross section, while the headhas a laterally projecting finger 17 ordinarily employed for engaging arail flange, but for use with the present device, the finger 17 performsno function and may be eliminated altogether if desired.

The auxiliary head 13 has a central rectangular bore 18 adapted for thesliding reception of the spike-shank 16 therethrough. At one side of thebody portion 19 ofthe said auxiliary head, a laterally projecting linger20 is provided having an oblique lower edge 21 adapted to engage theupper surface of the base ange 10 as best illustrated in Fig. 1. Anobliquely positioned arm 22, projects from the opposite side of the bodyportion 19, and has a pointed free end 23, adapted to enter the tiewhile a plurality of edge-serrations 24 are provided in the arm 22 forengagement with the wooden tie.

With the auxiliary head 13 slidably positioned upon the spike shank 16and the entire device placed adjacent the rail flange, the spike isdriven downwardly in a vertical direction into the tie by the use offorce exerted upon the spike head 15, which descent of the spike forcesthe auxiliary head 13 downwardly, forcing the arm 22 into the tie andthe finger 20 into a close engagement with the upper face of the baseflange. The rail will thus be firmly secured to the tie and theauxiliary head prevents the spike from accidental loosening during theoperating of the railroad.

While the form of the invention herein shown and described is, what isbelieved to be the preferred embodiment thereof, minor changes may bemade without departing.

from thc spirit and scope of the invention as claimed. I

What is claimed is A device of the class described comprising incombination with a railway spike having a shank rectangular in crosssection and a head at one end thereof, an auxiliary head comprising abody portion having a rectangular central bore adapted for the receptionof the spike shank slidably therethrough and prevented from relativerotary movement, a laterally projecting finger integrally carried at oneside of said body-portion and having a rail-engaging oblique lower face,

an obliquely positioned sharpened arm carried by said body-portion atthe side thereof opposite to the said finger and adapted for enteringengagement with the supporting tie and provided with serrations in itsopposite lower edges, the said arm extending In -testimony whereof weafx our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JOE' VROVATZ. JOHN KIRALY.

below the plane of said body-portion and finger and extending at anangle to the spike shank in assembled position to prevent a directvertical movement of said auxiliary head and a further outward movementthereof in alinement with the longitudinal aXis of the oblique arm.

Witnesses F. R. DITTMER, EDWARD SMITH.

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